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In Omar Barghouti’s recent New York Times piece , he once again mislead western audiences regarding  his true intentions in seeking the dismantling of Israel by using nuanced language meant to deceive. To start, he tried to make readers believe that the great Jewish leader Zeev Jabotinsky considered Zionists as colonizers, but...

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The Islamic Republic of Iran threatened Wednesday to resume higher-level enrichment of uranium and announced the scaling back of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear accord, a year after the United States pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). In a speech broadcast on national television, Iranian...

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The United States is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the Middle East to send a “clear and unmistakable message” to the Islamic Republic of Iran, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton announced Sunday. The White House official said the U.S. was...

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The United States may reconsider its relationship with countries it deems anti-Israel, the U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism said on Sunday, after an earlier shift in policy toward equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Elan Carr said in an interview with Reuters that, “The United States is willing to...

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“Daddy, how do you know that Israel won’t die?” my 8-year son recently asked me, looking very scared and worried. He had come home from school that day, where he’d heard about rockets raining down from Gaza into Israeli cities. He was grappling in his own way with the fragility...

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In a groundbreaking achievement, Israeli researchers have transformed rodent skin cells into the three major stem-cell types that comprise early-stage embryos. Their main goal is to provide a “test tube embryo” as a new way to model and study embryonic defects and placental dysfunctions using lab mice. In the future,...

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Qatar has said it will send $480m to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Gaza Strip after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement ended the deadliest rocket fire on Israel since the 2014 Gaza war. In a statement on Tuesday morning, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry announced that the country would allocate $300 million...

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The leader of the Iranian-sponsored Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has repeated his threat to invade Israel’s northern Galilee region. In a speech aired on Lebanese television on May 2, Nasrallah said: “The resistance can penetrate the Galilee and the enemy knows it.” Commemorating three years since the death...

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The Iranian-sponsored terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), one of the Islamist groups behind the recent wave of attacks against Israel, has admitted that a pregnant woman and a 14-month-old baby died as a result of a dysfunctional rocket that exploded in the family’s home. “A leak from the heroes...

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The Israeli and American national academies of science signed a cooperation agreement in Jerusalem on April 7, a move set to further scientific research in both countries. The ceremony was held at President Reuven Rivlin’s Jerusalem residence. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities was represented by its president, Prof....

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